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Valve Bootstrapped Source 2 Engine On an Open-Source Vulkan Driver

Posted by timothy on from the live-quicker-prosper-more dept.

An anonymous reader writes A new article out details how Valve bootstrapped their VULKAN back-end with the Source 2 Engine over a period of just four months thanks to relying on an open-source driver. With designing for the open-source Intel Vulkan Linux driver developed by LunarG, Valve developers were quickly able to resolve issues and progress the driver in a turn-key manner. This Intel Linux driver will be released as open-source once the Khronos VULKAN specification has been published.

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  1. Bootstrapped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That word does not mean what you think it means.

    Valve developers were quickly able to resolve issues and progress the driver in a turn-key manner.

    Oh I see, we're playing bullshit bingo. In that case, as you were...

  2. Star Trek fan wonders... by SeaFox · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why is the Vukan-based driver have a spec named for the Klingon homeworld?

  3. Re:Open Source Source 2 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Self righteous? I'm not advocating anything. Unlike you I don't give a fuck if someone is making bucket loads of money because I'm not a jealous prick.

    If you have an issue with companies making profit from open source you can replace valve with google, microsoft, apple, facebook etc because valve does far more for open source than any of the others do.